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Example sentences for: penang

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Unlike Portuguese and Dutch trading posts in the region, Penang was declared a duty-free zone, attracting many settlers and traders.
After the painful experience of the American Revolution, the EIC conducting business from the islands of Penang and Singapore epitomized the British policy of insulating colonies from local politics.
You can get good deals in watches, jewelry, major brand sports clothes, and jeans in the street markets of Kuala Lumpur — especially around Chinatown’s Jalan Petaling — and of Georgetown along Jalan Penang, Lebuh Campbell, and Lebuh Chulia.
In 1967 Penang was hit by serious riots, which highlighted the fact that political and social harmony could not be taken for granted.
In 1805, a dashing EIC administrator, Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles, came out to Penang at the age of 24.